Though it is not implicit in the campaign, Sears is in effect saying, been there, done that.
Implicit in the campaign, the critic Adam Shatz observed, was a "disavowal that acts of radical sympathy, and imaginative identification, are possible across racial lines".
Mr. Bush will highlight his message of national security and somber foreign policy in a high-profile speech that will emphasize both his implicit and explicit campaign trail theme: that he is best prepared to be commander in chief.
For both the bribery and gratuity subsections, the courts have interpreted an implicit exception for campaign contributions.
Last year's turbulent presidential campaign revealed implicit biases about the status and security of Muslims in America and elsewhere.
Tali Mendelberg, an associate professor of politics at Princeton University, is the author of "The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality".
As if to underline the McCarthyism implicit in this smear campaign, the Cheney ally Marc Thiessen (one of the two former Bush speechwritersnow serving as Washington Post columnists) started spreading these charges on television with a giggly, repressed hysteria uncannily reminiscent of the snide Joe McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn.
One of them, Jim Rassman, an Army Green Beret whose life was saved by Mr. Kerry in Vietnam, carried the same message here on Friday that is implicit throughout the Democratic campaign these days: that a candidate can vigorously disagree with the government while vigorously supporting the troops.
The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality.
The campaign made implicit promises of trustworthiness and new-style politics, as well as some explicit promises that have been jettisoned without explanation.
